Achievement Quote by Earl G. Graves, Sr

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

— Yvette Clarke

Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.

— David Olusoga

Black history is American history. You cannot tell one story without telling the other.

— William Barr

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black...

— Danielle O'Hara

There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we…

— David Oyelowo

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

— Henry Louis Gates

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

— Don Lemon

“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is…

— James Baldwin